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We're exploring tonight, part two.

It's a continued reflection on belonging and the pathways to belonging.

And as you know, as social beings, belonging, the urge for belongings in our DNA and the

research, the growing research on our need to belong is very, very striking for us humans

that how much the sense of connection and having active relationships impacts our health

or happiness or longevity.

And it's true for poor, for wealthy, across all populations, our relationship and feelings

of connection matter.

And as we know, of course, there's all sorts of unhealthy versions of connecting.

We heard one story of these three novices in a seaside monastery and they got caught

in a kind of mini tsunami and got stranded on an island.

They had been boating, got stranded on an island hundreds of miles away.

And so after keeping themselves alive for several weeks, they found a cave and it had zaffoos

in it sitting cushions.

You never know on these desert islands.

And they sat down and the spirit of the cave began communicating in an echoing voice saying,

you know, you found your way to the Feng Shui spot on the island and you properly assumed

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